Pamela Dorman Books Team
Natalie Grant joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2024. A lifelong reader of women’s fiction, she is thrilled to be supporting Pamela Dorman and Jeramie Orton as an editorial assistant. Natalie comes to Pamela Dorman Books with a background in social science research and Chaucer. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, where she…
Read MoreMaya Petrillo-Fernandez joined Viking and Pamela Dorman Books in March 2024, assisting Terezia Cicel and Seema Mahanian. Previously, Maya taught high school English in her hometown of NYC before pivoting to publishing as an assistant at Folio Literary Management. She enjoys character-driven fiction, narrative nonfiction, and literature across genres that sheds light on lesser-known histories.
Read MoreSeema Mahanian rejoined Pamela Dorman Books/Viking as Senior Editor in 2023. She is drawn to character and voice-driven fiction, family sagas, friendship and coming-of-age stories, and novels that amplify underrepresented voices and examine identity and contemporary life. Seema was previously at Grand Central Publishing where she published New York Times bestsellers Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (a…
Read MoreMarie Michels (she/her) joined Pamela Dorman Books in 2020, after beginning her career in literary agencies. She has been fortunate to work with a wide range of authors, from New York Times bestsellers Ashley Audrain and Clare Pooley to the late, revered spy novelist John le Carré. She is a graduate of the University of…
Read MoreJeramie Orton (she/her) is an associate editor at Pamela Dorman Books/Viking; she’s seeking upmarket commercial fiction (both contemporary and historical), fresh dystopian narratives, elevated rom-coms, and domestic thrillers. She is particularly keen to see stories from around the globe, as well as contemporary narratives that are rooted in, or explore the identity of, the New American South.
Read MorePamela Dorman is Vice President and Publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. In her more than thirty years at Penguin, Dorman has acquired and edited the multimillion-copy #1 bestsellers The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, Me Before You and The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (a selection of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club and optioned by Witherspoon’s Hello, Sunshine for feature film), The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, and The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard, which was the first selection of the Oprah Book Club.
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